Lauren Cohans Favorite Episode Of The Walking Dead

Ever since the introduction of Maggie Greene in season 2, Lauren Cohan has been a vital part of The Walking Dead, and here's her favorite episode.

Here's Lauren Cohan's favorite episode of The Walking Dead. Cohan's first major TV role came a few years before landing the part of Maggie Greene on AMC's zombie juggernaut, portraying the villainous Bella Talbot on Supernatural, and serving as a brief thorn in the side of Sam and Dean Winchester. Cohan's Bella flopped hard with fans, with most quite happy when she was abruptly written off near the end of season 3. While Bella was disliked by most, Cohan's Maggie became a fast fan-favorite during The Walking Dead season 2, proving her Supernatural failure was more due to writing than anything else.

Like most prominent Walking Dead characters, Maggie has gone on quite a journey over the course of her time on The Walking Dead, beginning as a fairly sheltered farm girl looked after by her sadly later killed father, Hershel, before blossoming into a deadly warrior and skilled leader. Maggie isn't universally beloved by The Walking Dead's famously rabid fanbase, but few characters are. What she is, though, is an ingredient that usually makes Walking Dead storylines more interesting than they would be without her.

While it remains to be seen exactly how Maggie Greene's journey will end, Cohan has her favorite Walking Dead episodes just like anyone else, as she's far from the first cast member to sound off in that regard. In Cohan's case, her favorite episode is "Made to Suffer," which aired as season 3, episode 8, and served as the mid-season finale. Unsurprisingly, Cohan's pick features a great, if harsh arc for Maggie, as well as her future husband - and controversial Negan victim - Glenn. Here's her reasoning for the choice, as she shared (via EW):

One of my favorite episodes to shoot was definitely when Maggie and Glenn break out of Woodbury, and he’s so badass and he smashes a chair and he guts the walker, and then we break out and we kill a bunch of people and we get out of Woodbury. Probably that one, because that just felt like the essence of the show to me. Like, somehow our gang found us, and we all broke out and nothing can keep us down. And that to me is the essence of our band.

In "When the Dead Come Knocking," the Walking Dead episode prior to "Made to Suffer," Maggie and her future husband Glenn have been taken captive by The Governor inside Woodbury. The two are interrogated separately, with Glenn taking quite a beating. Meanwhile, The Governor has Maggie strip, clearly threatening to rape her if she doesn't comply. Maggie eventually relents and gives them the information they want when Glenn's life is threatened. Thankfully, in "Made to Suffer," the cavalry arrives in the form of Rick, Michonne, Daryl, and Oscar. This allows Glenn and Maggie to get their due revenge, brutally killing multiple Woodbury loyalists - although sadly not the sadistic soldier-killing Governor himself - and escaping with their friends.

As Cohan laid out above, the events of "Made to Suffer" were an early reflection of the tight, almost familial bond formed by Rick's group over the course of seasons 1 and 2. Rick and company didn't hesitate to risk their lives by heading into enemy territory to rescue their own, while Glenn and Maggie never gave up hope, no matter how dire things seemed during their capture. "Made to Suffer" was also the first big movement toward the coming showdown between Woodbury and Rick's group, who were by then occupying the prison, making it a truly pivotal episode of The Walking Dead.